For You Lot Tal Farlow - 1977 Trinity

Talmage Holt Farlow (June 7, 1921 – July 25, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist. Nicknamed the "Octopus" for his extremely large hands which spread over the fretboard every bit if they were tentacles, he is considered i of the all-time cracking jazz guitarists. Where other like players of his twenty-four hours combined rhythmic chords alongside linear melodies, Farlow preferred placing unmarried notes together inwards clusters, varying betwixt harmonically enriched tones based on a startling novel technique.

This is i of Tal Farlow's to a greater extent than obscure recordings, which originally was released past times the Japanese label Tristar inwards 1977, as well as hence reissued past times Columbia inwards Kingdom of the Netherlands the next decade. The guitarist sticks primarily to standards; his trio includes pianist Mike Nock as well as bassist Lynn Christie. The leader's lyricism is readily apparent inwards the lightly swinging stimulate got of "(There Is) No Greater Love," piece his mastery of bop is evident inwards the lively interpretations of "My Shining Hour" as well as "But Not for Me." The lovely stimulate got of "Angel Eyes" begins alongside Farlow playing unaccompanied. There are ii tracks introduce that don't mensurate up. Producer Teo Macero's "The Wolf as well as the Lamb" is an unstirred original. Farlow's "Funk Among the Keys" adds drummer Bob Jaspe as well as has Nock switching to electrical keyboards, resulting inwards a bizarre vocal that sounds totally out of house on this otherwise enjoyable session.

The get-go six tracks on this disc contain a gear upwards of good played jazz standards, inwards a drum-less trio alongside Australian-based pianist Mike Nock as well as Lynn Christie on bass. Christie bows through a distich of tracks which at i time gives this gear upwards an atypical texture. Recorded inwards New York inwards September 1976 as well as produced past times Teo Macero, things deed farther inwards a unlike direction on rails 7, "The Wolf as well as the Lamb", a Teo Macero-E.Capra composition that has a bouncy calypso-ish beat, driven past times the pianoforte as well as bass, alongside Tal relegated strictly to background rhythm. It's a pleasant instrumental, exactly a amount pace away from the previous six tracks.

Things become fifty-fifty to a greater extent than odd on rails 8, "Funk Among the Keys", which adds drummer Bob Jaspe. This fourth dimension Tal is i time again the star, solely he's experimenting alongside about wild electronic effects, giving him a fatty tone alongside screaming sustains. The rails has a funky fusion vibe which marks it every bit a novelty inwards Tal's catalogue. At that betoken I had to walk over to my CD thespian to brand certain it hadn't switched discs! Not for purists, exactly worth checking out for hard-core fans of the cracking guitarist. 

H5N1 rare session from Tal Farlow's lost years – alongside Mike Nock on keyboards, as well as originally solely issued inwards Japan! (Out of print.)

Track Listing:

1. My Shining Hour,
2. If I Should Lose You,
3. No Greater Love
4. But Not For Me,
5. Falling In Love With Love,
6. Angel Eyes,
7. The Wolf And The Lamb,
8. Funk Among The Keys.

Personnel:

Guitar – Tal Farlow
Bass – Lynn Christie*
Drums – Bob Jaspe (tracks: 8)
Keyboards – Mike Nock